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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That was my take too.
But what stands out for me from Woolf's review is what I imagine many of Joyce's contemporaries felt. Seems some of her objections were more about breeding and social class than anything else. Her private thoughts on the novel were even more pretentious and snobbish, it seems. Ironic, since those are the exact things many want to attribute to Ulysses (and/or Ulysses proponents). **Shrug**
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I wonder to what extent Woolf might have been resentful at having been pipped at the post. Stream of consciousness as a technique was out there, but
Ulysses would prove to be the apotheosis, rendering such Woolfish novels as
Mrs. Dalloway as in a school and not groundbreaking. And to what extent was she influenced by Joyce at that?
Let’s also not overlook the sneer at Eliot, as well, who was, y’know, American and therefore ill-bred and low class by definition, as were Irish not of the ascendancy.